A Chatcast update: The News + Record's Bill Horner III first spoke with New York Times journalist Elizabeth Williamson back in May about her new book, "Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth," the compelling story of the aftermath of the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. It's an engrossing account not of the shooting at Sandy Hook, but about what happened in the hours, the days and the months that followed as conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones of InfoWars used their platforms to incite and enrage millions of listeners and followers by telling the the tragedy didn't happen. (Jones, for example, claimed no one died at Sandy Hook and that child actors were used in the “false flag” event designed to boost gun control measures.) It’s also the story of how false conspiracy narratives and malicious misinformation have gained traction in today’s America.

Horner and Williamson spoke again a few weeks later following the tragic school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, and then again on Aug. 13, after Jones' first trial in Texas.

This episode is an update recorded Friday, Oct. 21, after Jones' second trial in Connecticut.